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DIALOG 8
Jan Kopp
New Piece (Premiere)
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Zeitmaße (1955/56)
21 Jun 2004
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Karlheinz Stockhausen played a central role in the development of music after the Second World War and was widely influential, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. World famous as a composer of electronic music, his oeuvre contains more than two hundred independently performable works, of which no more than slightly less than twenty are electronic compositions.
As a co-creator of serial music, Stockhausen was the first composer to systematically incorporate the parameter of tone color into serial structural thought, and he used sine waves to assemble the sounds of his electronic works Studie I (1953) and II (1954). In the second half of the 1950s, space became another parameter of serial music for him. The position of the loudspeakers in the hall (Gesang der Jünglinge [Song of the Youths], 1955/56) and the spatial arrangement of the orchestral groups (Gruppen für drei Orchester [Groups for Three Orchestras], 1955/57) have become part of the serial organization. In order to relax and set in motion the serial structures, which he soon began to experience as too rigid, Stockhausen sought inspiration in information theory and statistics, reformulating the concepts and models of these disciplines and making them available to his music. In his aleatory compositions, the performer of his instrumental music becomes a co-composer of the work on various levels, as for example in Zeitmaße für fünf Holzbläser (Measures for Five Woodwinds) of 1955/56.
Jan Kopp was born in Pforzheim in 1971. He completed a preliminary course of study in composition at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe under Wolfgang Rihm. After his Abitur, he studied German language and literature and musicology at the University of Heidelberg and composition at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart with Helmut Lachenmann and Marco Stroppa. From 1998 to 2000 Kopp was project manager at KlangForum in Heidelberg. He has written numerous essays and articles for program brochures, CD booklets, lexicons, and the radio on twentieth-century composers and musical works. Jan Kopp is an independent composer and publicist.
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